I’ve been taking care of some housekeeping that has long needed doing around here (basically my apartment is too small for all the stuff I’ve crammed into it), so I haven’t had much time to post or write. Fortunately though, the answers to story problems have been coming to me, albeit slowly and at random. Not the ideal situation, but you take what you can get.

I’d been deliberating over one particular character who never seemed to fit in, and a couple of nights ago I figured I’d better do some freewriting on him. I did, but only ended up with more questions, albeit more pertinent ones. Tired (and sick), I let it go for the time being.

Lying awake in the middle of last night, it dawned on me what had to happen, how another character would react to certain actions by this character (party of the first part), what she (party of the second part) wanted and how it would conflict with the desires of the party of the first part, and I figured it out. Mostly. I do find it peculiar that all along I sensed the first character’s arc didn’t fit in somehow, but found out exactly why and how weeks later.

He’s a dead man walking.